Frank Ocean's debut mixtape, Nostalgia Ultra, ultimately feels like a mish-mash of everything his contemporaries were up to at the time. There are some amazing tracks and glimpses of Frank's talent and potential, but it ultimately disappoints as a whole. Most of the instrumentals are really great (especially Novacane and Swim Good, showing that Frank makes better tracks without sampling), but his vocals still needed some work. The mixtape as a whole is fairly underdeveloped and lacklustre, especially in comparison in to his later projects where his potential and ideas were fully realised.